The Newcastle Robotics Laboratory is
an interdisciplinary research initiative of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics and Statistics at The University of Newcastle, Australia. The lab comprises a team of several academics, postgraduates and undergraduates with expertise in areas such as:

Artificial Intelligence

Classification and Clustering

Computational Neuroscience

Computer Vision

Control Methods

Data Mining Techniques

Digital Control

Digital Image Processing

Dimensionality Reduction

Evolutionary Computation

Extended Kalman Filters

Flexible Distribution Functions

Feedback Control and Regulation

Manifold Learning

Motor Control and Legged Locomotion

Neural Networks

Optimisation and Quality Control

Reinforcement Learning

Robot Programming

Software Engineering

Support Vector Machines

Vision Systems

The Newcastle Robotics Lab hosts a number of different projects.
Central to the lab is our robot soccer competition team - The NUbots - who participated at RoboCup regularly since 2002. The NUbots competed in the RoboCup Four-Legged League 2002-2007 using Sony AIBO robots and won the Worldtitle at RoboCup 2006 in Bremen, Germany. They were placed second at the worldcups in 2005 and 2007, and third in 2002, 2003, and 2004. In 2008 they won the worldtitle in the RoboCup Standard Platform League using NAO robots as part of the NUManoid team. They were the 2011 Australian champions in the RoboCup Standard Platform League. In 2012 the NUbots started using the Darwin-OP platform and compete since then in the Kidsize Humanoid League at RoboCup.

Note: The name NUbots stand for Newcastle University robots and is the name of the robot soccer competition team of the Newcastle Robotics Lab., Australia, since 2002.

“Robotic soccer is
not just a game, our researchers are pushing the boundaries of machine learning, software engineering and control where new solutions can have important implications for industry and society”, A./Prof. Stephan Chalup